1、Lesson 1ExercisesI. Complete the sentences based on the Chinese given in the brackets. 1. if the grass is greener on the other side of he fence, it is time for you to _ (施肥)your lawn.2. Just enjoy the little things you are doing. When you look back, you will _ (意识到) they were the big things. 3. Walt
2、 Disney _ (总结) how he made his dreams come true in four Cs: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy. 4. Xiao Wang broke a leg last week and is _ (住院治疗). 5. Some travelers adapt themselves so successfully to foreign customs that they are criticized for having become “_” (西化) by their less adapta
3、ble fellow countrymen. 6. The plan was _ (批评) as too idealistic and impractical. 7. We dont want to freeze everything the way it is forever, we want to develop and _ (现代化). 8. The waste water is now _ (净化) and then used for irrigation. 9. The training course aims to _ (使合格) them as teachers of Engli
4、sh. 10. How can you _ (说明有正当理由的) your behaviour? 11. Mrs. Jones _ (认出物品) the purse as hers. 12. The freshmen will first read some _ (简写) stories. 13. Books can be _ (分类) indifferent ways. 14. I was really _ (害怕的) when I was told that 500 million people would watch my performance. 15. The town used t
5、o _ almost entirely _ (依靠) tourism for its economic development. 16. The president asked me to _ (主持) the meeting on his behalf. 17. I told them that Mr. Shen _ (坚持) their giving a straightforward answer. 18. No country has the right to _ (干涉 ) other counties internal affairs. 19. His grandparents _
6、 (渴望) his return to his own country. 20. In the last twenty years his research _ (集中) a new strain of rice. 21. All this _ at our last discussion. I dont see why we need to talk about it again. 22. Alice is still _ (同意了) the choice between the two jobs. 23. They would never _ （犹豫）these means to get
7、rich. 24. There is no use _ (埋愿) the situation we are in. we should take action and _ (依靠 ) ourselves to change it for the better. 25. Do you still remember the name of the Chinese who _ (成功) swimming across the English Channel? II. Give words or expressions with similar meanings. 1. accomplishment
8、2. to assume3. attempt 4. career5. chance 6. disaster7. to be employed 8. fairly 9. to generate 10. to maintain11. obvious 12. to rear (one children)13. to sufficeIII. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms. 1. They said that they would _ no more trees are cut
9、 from now on. 2. When he first retired, he felt very uncomfortable. He did not know what to _ all his time. 3. If you want to know this, I can _ a real expert. 4. Meals at the hotel _ 20 yuan per day. 5. James protested that others _ saying such things about him. 6. Eric told me that everything is t
10、he hospital was first-rate, and so was it _ its doctors and nurses. 7. They were shocked to hear Professor Jin say that a company should to average out to, to be stuck, to have no business doing sth, to see to sth./to see to it that-clause, to be exposed to, to be true of, to put sb. in touch with,
11、to specialize in, to be out to, to do with sth.not _ make profit only. 8. My father was a historian. He _ the history of the Ming Dynasty. 9. There are several ways to get around the difficulties when you _ in the middle of a sentence. 10. Some sociologists argue that the ever-increasing crime rate
12、is due to the fact that people _ too much violence in TV programs. 11. In the first half of the year, Li Fans income _ 6,000 yuan per month. 12. They promised to _ the nuclear power station would be safe. IV. Put in the missing words.If you are like most people, your intelligence (1) _ from season t
13、o season. You are (2) _ a lot sharper in spring than you are at any (3) _ time of the year. Spring appears to be the best (4) _ of the year for thinking. One (5) _ may be that in spring man mental (6) _ are affected by the same factors that bring (7) _ great changes in all nature. Autumn is the next
14、 best season (8) _ winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to (9) _ a long vacation from thinking! It has been (10) _ that cool weather is much more favorable (11) _ creative thinking than is summer heat. This does not (12) _ that all people are (13) _ intelligent in summer than they (14)
15、_ during the rest of the year. It (15) _ mean, however, that the mental powers of large numbers of people (16) _ to be lowest in summer.V. Combine each pair of the sentences, using the right emphasizing coordinate conjunctions. Not but.; not only but (also) ; both and; eitheror; neither nor1. His br
16、other is a lawyer. His sister is a lawyer, too. 2. What they lack is not money. What they lack is experience. 3. They have come to china to learn Chinese. They have also come to learn about her culture. 4. I find the new manager is not easy to get along with. I find he is not delightful to talk to,
17、either.5. What children want most from their parents are love and attention. What they want most are not really material things. 6. Mr. Hu is fluent in French. He is fluent in English, too. 7. Contrary to what people had expected, he attended the meeting. He also spoke for twenty minutes. 8. You may
18、 write your essay in your regular exercise book. You may print a copy if you do it on your computer. 9. Im not quite sure why he didnt show up. Perhaps he was not interested. Perhaps he simply forgot about it. 10. A society should respect its scientists. It should also respect its garbage collectors
19、. 11. The teachers dont believe there is any shortcut in learning English. The students dont believe in such a thing, either. 12. The purpose of a university is to produce people who are specialists. Its purpose is also to produce civilized citizens. VI. Construct questions for the answers. 1. _. Th
20、e essay is written for university freshmen. 2. _. The writer was teaching English Literature at that time. 3. _. The boy came to college to be a pharmacist. 4. _. He didnt understand why it was important for him to read Shakespeare and wanted the teacher to explain to him. He thought it was a waste
21、of time for a future pharmacist to read works of literature. 5. _. According to the writer, in a technical training school students learn skills for a job, while in a university, students not only train for skills but develop their mental and moral power. 6. _. The writer thinks that when a person i
22、s neither working nor sleeping he should be trying to improve his mind and enrich his life through learning. 7. _. No, the student wasnt convinced. 8. _. Yes, I do. I agree that he says about the purpose of a university. VII. Put in the right preposition from the list below. 1. Professor Li spoke _
23、an expert _ modern Chinese literature. 2. He talks _ a computer expert, but really he knows little. 3. In the 1930s, a lot of people in the USA were _ work. 4. _ her 21st birthday, her parents sent her a leather coat _ affectionate letter. 5. The managers office is large and airy. _ the window is a
24、CEO-type of desk. An office chair stands _ the desk. Further back _ the corner there is a floor-ceiling bookcase filled _ books, magazines, newspapers, etc. 6. Everyone knows him _ Old Arthur. He lives _ a little hut _ the middle of a small wood, about a mile _ the village. He goes _ the village twi
25、ce a week to buy food, and occasionally he collects letters and his pension _ the post office. 7. This is what Old Arthur said _ himself _ a reporter _ the local newspaper: “I get up every morning _ the birds. There is a stream _ my hut and I fetch water _ there. Its good, clear, fresh water, better
26、 than you get _ the city. Occasionally, about, for, of, to, along with, from, off, under, as, in, on, upon, at, into, on to, with, behind, like, out of, by, near, round_ winter, I have to break the ice. I cook simple food _ my stove; mostly stews and things _ that. I dont have much money, but I thin
27、k Im a lucky man.”8. Recently I came _ a little group _ worried people, gathered _ a man lying _the pavement _ a busy London road. They were waiting _ an ambulance, because the man had been knocked down _ the street, to avoid walking _ a ladder. This superstition (迷信 ) goes back _ the days when the
28、gallows (绞刑架) were built _ a platform. To get up _ the platform you had to climb a ladder. To pass _ that ladder therefore was considered very unlucky. Key to the exercises: I. Complete the sentences based on the Chinese given in the brackets: 1. fertilize 2. realize 3. summarized 4. hospitalized 5.
29、 westernized 6. criticized 7. modernize 8. purified 9. qualify 10. justify 11. identify 12. simplified 13. classified 14. terrified 15. depend on/upon 16. preside over 17. insisted on 18. interfere in/with 19. are longing for/longed for/have been longing for 20. has concentrated on 21. was agreed on
30、/upon 22. hesitating about/over 23. resort to 24. complaining about, rely on/upon 25. succeeded inII. Give words or expressions with similar meanings. 1. achievement 2. to suppose 3. effort 4. profession/occupation5. opportunity 6. great tragedy/misfortune 7. used/kept busy8. rather 9. to produce 10
31、. to keep/to keep up/to continue11. apparent/clear 12. to raise/to bring up 13. to be enoughIII. Complete the sentences with the expressions listed below in their proper forms. 1. see to it that 2. do with 3. put you in touch with 4. average out to 5. had no business 6. true of 7. be out to 8. speci
32、alized in 9. are stuck10. are exposed to 11. averaged out to 12. see to it thatIV. Put in the missing words.1. varies/changes 2. probably 3. other 4. period5. reason 6. powers 7. about 8. then9. take 10. found 11. for 12. mean13. less 14. are 15. does 16. tendV. Combine each pair of the sentences, u
33、sing the right emphasizing coordinate conjunctions. 1. Both his sister and brother are lawyers. 2. What they lack is not money but experience. 3. They have come to china not only to learn Chinese, but to learn about her culture as well. 4. I find the new manager neither easy to get along with nor de
34、lightful to talk to. 5. What children really want most from their parents are not material things but love and attention. 6. Mr. Hu is not only fluent in French but also in English. 7. Contrary to what people had expected, not only did he attend the meeting, but he also spoke for twenty minutes. 8.
35、You may either write your essay in your regular exercise book or print a copy if you do it on your computer. 9. Im not quite sure why he didnt show up. Either he was not interested, or he simply forgot about it.10. A society should respect both its scientists and its garbage collectors. 11. Neither
36、the teachers nor the students believe there is any shortcut in learning English. 12. The purpose of a university is to produce people who are both specialists and civilized citizens. VI. Construct questions for the answers. 1. Who is the essay written for?2. What was the writer doing/teaching at tha
37、t time? 3. What did the boy come to college for? 4. Why did the boy go to the writers office one day? What was his problem? 5. What is the difference between a university and a technical training school, according to the author? 6. How does the writer think a person should spend the time when he is
38、neither working nor sleeping? Why? 7. Was the tall boy convinced by what the writer said? 8. Do you agree with what the writer says about the purpose of a university? VII. Put in the right preposition from the list below. 1. as, on 2. like 3. out of 4. For/On, along with 5. By/Near, behind, in, with 6. as, in, in, from, to/into, at/from7. about, to, from, with, near, from, in, in, on, like8. on/upon, of, round, on, beside, for, by, off, into, under, to, on, on to, under
